NHB Modern Plays
The NHB Modern Plays series features the pick of modern and contemporary plays from leading UK and international playwrights. Championing quality, accessibility and diversity, it takes the best writing for the stage and gives it enduring life on the page.
The Judge's Wife
A short play about justice and retribution, first seen as a BBC television drama.
Lovesick
A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
A short play set in a dystopian future, where a couple in a tower block hide from the violence and pollution outside.
Schreber's Nervous Illness
A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.
Seagulls
A woman with an extraordinary gift begins to fear her powers are waning.
The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.
Low in the Dark
A witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.
Misogynist
A powerful anatomy of misogyny, by 'one of the most significant new Irish writers of his generation' (Sunday Times).
The Hamster Wheel
When one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?
Acts
A short play about an old couple whose son returns after years of absence.
The Visitor
A short play about a schoolmaster on the verge of retirement, confronted by a mysterious young man wishing to pay his respects.
Prickly Heat
A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.
